Fortunately these were relatively easy to revert so that's what we did because we wanted to all the 0.9.0 goodness on our HBase 0.90.4 cluster (CDH3u3).

I've forked Hive on Github and reverted the parts of those two issues (HIVE-2748, HIVE-2764) that were causing problems.

For all those "stuck" with HBase 0.90 (e.g. CDH3 users) we've also deployed this custom Hive HBase Handler to our own Maven repository and will maintain that for the foreseeable future. You can just download the jar file and use it in your projects or use our Maven repository:

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Thanks for this sharing. I downloaded your custom handler jar and placed it in hive's lib directory. Deleted old handler jar and changed hive.aux.jars.path parameter accordingly. But i am getting following error: